Panel: Personal Liability Excess Insurer Has No Duty To Defend Defamation Suit

(June 27, 2024, 11:01 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a personal liability umbrella insurer had no duty to provide defense costs for an underlying defamation lawsuit brought against board members of the College of DuPage, finding that an educator’s legal liability insurance policy covered the underlying loss....